Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands

Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by cyberlab on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:04PM (#26905846)

If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by HowardStark on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:44PM (#26906461)

Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo.

That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by celestialcheese on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:46PM (#26906504)

duck.com was owned by google from an acquisition in 2010.

It was sold to DDG in 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by jordanmoconnor on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:02PM (#26906757)

Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by julienfr112 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:40PM (#26907905)

Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by cigaser on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:06PM (#26906807)

It is using Bing engine and data.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by magnusmundus on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:54PM (#26907399)

...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by Seirdy on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:13PM (#26907600)

Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim.

DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by skinnymuch on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:22AM (#26941748)

They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by anoonmoose on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:11PM (#26906855)

That would make it even funnier!

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by cigaser on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:36PM (#26907168)

It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by kortilla on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:51PM (#26907372)

Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by vmception on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:40PM (#26908993)

Hilarious even, but I wouldn’t be mad though

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by seriousquestion on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:43PM (#26909825)

And if Signal was actually the NSA.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by gtirloni on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:48PM (#26906538)

In December 2018, it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo. It is not known what price, if any, DuckDuckGo paid for the domain name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by sneak on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:26PM (#26907046)

Being a "competitor" that a monopolist can point to as faux evidence of their not-monopoly status is far beyond any simple integer price.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by vmception on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:41PM (#26909006)

Especially since we need BigNumber to represent the real dollar value at stake

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by Sephr on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:46PM (#26906498)

iirc this was originally owned by Google and then given to DDG.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by butt__hugger on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:54PM (#26906634)

This is correct. It used to redirect to Google.

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by gtirloni on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:52PM (#26906611)

Does anyone know what cobrasearch.com was?

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Re:Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands by FredPret on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:02PM (#26906747)

It’s like Find My iPhone but much scarier

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